Furniture

Brass lamp, optionally varnished or nickel-plated, all other surfaces on request, glass beads, fire polished Most components according to the UL regulations, with an additional char...

There has long been a fascination with the symbolism of the dragon and its depiction in carpet weavings. The design of ‘Dragon’ carpets consists of a field pattern composed of different colored overlaid lattices formed of pointed, serrated leaves creating intersecting lozenges, which alternately contain palmettes and are flanked by confronting stylized dragons, birds, or animal figures. The most archaic of the ‘Dragon’ carpets include dragon motifs with birds and running animals relatively naturalistically drawn, which stand either alone or in confronting pairs facing a tree. The Graf carpet, originally found in a Damascene mosque, now in the Islamiches Museum, Berlin, is considered to be the oldest example of this type, see Serare Yetkin, Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey, Vol. II, London, 1978, p.8, fig.118. Yetkin defines four types of ‘Dragon’ carpet: ‘Archaic’, ‘Four-Dragon’, ‘Dragon-and-Phoenix’ and as a further combined development of the latter, the ‘Two-Dragon’ style, of which the present carpet falls into the ‘Dragon-and-Phoenix group along with other examples, some of which include two fragments, one in the Museum fur Kunst und Gerwerbe, Hamburg; another in the Christian Museum, Esztergom, Hungary, a complete carpet in the Kier collection; an incomplete example in the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C; the ‘Cassirer’ Dragon carpet in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, Lugano; the Ali Pasa Mosque carpet in Tokat, and a further example in the Vakiflar Hali Museum, Istanbul (S. Yetkin, op. cit. pp.16-20). It has been suggested that the earliest examples of the Caucasian ‘Dragon’ carpets...

The Anglo-Austrian bank, founded 1864 with British capital, was an Austrian Bank in Vienna. In 1913, the bank had 43 branches. In 1914, Adolf Loos was commissioned with the renovatio...

"shipping note: If your region or country is not listed under the shipping options please contact us directly" A set of two charming peacock bird sculptures made from a base metal w...

A rare, domed, black and white enameled Art Nouveau advertising sign for Wiener Werkstätte, founded by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and Fritz ...

Large Majolica duck in an egg pitcher signed Keller et Guerin Saint Clement, circa 1900. Decorated with a duckling watching a dragonfly.

Antique piano stool – hand-turned swivel stool, late 19th century, restored. This exquisite piano stool from the Napoleon III era combines historical elegance with outstanding craft...

Early 20th century Italian lithograph hand-colored by Giuseppe Falchetti depicting still life of fruit and flowers, horizontally framed, apples, pea...

This exquisite Art Nouveau mushroom shaped lamp in the style of Galle in Nancy, France. a statement pieces in any room. The glass is multi-layered and decorated in pink, red, light ...

Stunning antique Gothic design, coffee or side table. This wonderfully bulky table really is of an impressive quality make and it also is practical in size. It comes with deep and b...

Art Nouveau French Faience Pitcher Luneville Circa 1900 Model "Guipure" signed Keller & Guerin Luneville.

BEAUTIFUL Antique French Oak GOTHIC REVIVAL Bench, Settee or Church Pew with Lift-Top Seat for Storage~~HIGHLY CARVED ~~c. 1890s Spectacular design elements featuring lin...

Early religious work of art, presented in the original antique frame. This beautiful and uplifting portrait of Saint Joseph holding hands with the child Jesus is an oil on canvas an...

Rare sculptural table lamp, model Solen/The Sun, in the shape of a woman in solid bronze. Glass shade with beautiful flower patterns. Signed Gerda Sprinchorn...

A petite hand blown Italian Barovier & Toso pendant light with glass covered brass fittings. Clear ribbed glass elements. The Fixture requires one European E27 / 110 Volt Edison bulb...

A dekorative appr. 120-year-old, large, wall-mounted round „Multimeter“ analog slide rule calculator. Dated around 1900, made in Germany. It has a rotatable glass disc and offers multiple features like multiplication, division, interest-calculation and square root...

Pair of Italian Art Nouveau Vintage cementite table lamps. The lamps were made in Italy in the 1920s using cement tiles with geometric decorations ty...

German Art Nouveau Portable Sewing Machine 1890 GRITZNER Germany

Stunning Table, Extension, Lions, Italian Renaissance Revival, Carved, Walnut, E. 1900s, 20th Century!! This antique dining table from the early 1900s features a classic Italian Ren...

This bowl is a stunning example of Longwy ceramic craftsmanship, renowned for its vibrant enamel cloisonné-style decoration. Longwy, a French ceramic manufacturer founded in 1798, is...

Beautiful, very rare original bench no. 5 by the Thonet brothers (Gebrüder Thonet) Vienna from 1859. Vienna Secession. Art Nouveau With original branded logo and one original paper l...

A Rare Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase with Clematis Decor, by Émile Gallé Nancy Emile Gallé Cameo glass vase, richly decorated with branches with flowe...

Magnificent chandelier in solid casted brass. Extraordinary elaborate finishes. Rich hangings with handcut crystal glasses. All components ac...

A Fine French 19th Century Empire Style Mahogany and Gilt-Bronze Mounted "Lit en Bateau" Officer's Campaign Bed. The "Boat Shaped" frame, surmoun...

Rare and finest Gilded bronze crucifix mounted on a oak cross. The striking details on this highest quality bronze sculpture of Christ are second to none and the antique gilt finish...

An exceptional and large pair Moser amethyst glass vases with gilded chinoiserie patterns dating from around 1910. These tall glass vases Stand on...

French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé cameo vase depicting Flowering Fuchsia in purple and blue over orange/yellow, with fine internal polishing to hig...

Italian Rococo Revival Writing Desk, Late 19th Century This charming Italian Rococo Style painted writing desk, likely dating back to the late-19th century, showcases a delicate flor...

A exceptionally beautiful and functional antique Eastern European or German fir pine dresser with period brass pulls. The casework is expertly crafted to create a sturdy piece while ...

Timeless Trio: Vintage Holophane Pine Glass Acorn Pendants Enhance your interior with this set of three vintage Holophane pendant lights. Each shade features a unique prismatic pine...

Large bronze dancer with a brown patina, on a green marble base: she bears the name of Pompeian Dancer on a cartouche. She plays delicately with her veil, balanced on one foot, on a ...

For the residence of the Banker Dr Dietrich Moldauer Material: Patinated brass, silk, all other colors are possible Most components according to the UL regulations, with an addition...

Beautiful antique leaded stained glass Art Nouveau transom window. Features a rose design at the center in a ruby tone with green leaves and blue circles on a pebbled glass foregroun...

Italian hand-painted Venetian style cabinet, C1960 Beautiful Venetian style painted cabinet c1960s Italy. Simple neoclassical style, wonderfully complimented by the delicate figurati...

A pair of lovely figures of young children with beautiful hand painted facial features. One holds a bell and is leaning on a tree stump base and the other child with floral leaves. S...

Deeply carved, extra large size, Gothic Revival corbel, bracket with a stunning patina. Finding unique antiques that have just that little bit more than your average is what we alwa...

An exceptional French Art Nouveau Daum Frères Violets miniature cameo glass vase wheel cut with raised designs in colored enamels on an etched ground dating from around 1900. The tal...

A giving joy beautiful French Fayence Floor Vase fantastic Art Nouveau pattern - Impressing Colours Manufacturer unknown - marked Design Period 1915 - 1925 Country of Manufacture : France H / height: 46 cm ~ Gew. / weight: 4550 grs DM / diameter max: 28 cm ~ DM oben / diameter inner rim: 19.8 cm .... an ode to Southern France A Legend of Provence by Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) The lights extinguished, by the hearth I leant, Half weary with a listless discontent. The flickering giant-shadows, gathering near, Closed round me with a dim and silent fear. All dull, all dark; save when the leaping flame, Glancing, lit up a Picture's ancient frame. Above the hearth it hung. Perhaps the night, My foolish tremors, or the gleaming light, Lent power to that Portrait dark and quaint, — A Portrait such as Rembrandt loved to paint, — The likeness of a Nun. I seemed to trace A world of sorrow in the patient face, In the thin hands folded across her breast: — Its own and the room's shadow hid the rest. I gazed and dreamed, and the dull embers stirred, Till an old legend that I once had heard Came back to me; linked to the mystic gloom Of that dark Picture in the ghostly room. In the far south, where clustering vines are hung; Where first the old chivalric lays were sung; Where earliest smiled that gracious child of France, Angel and knight and fairy, called Romance, I stood one day. The warm blue June was spread Upon the earth; blue summer overhead, Without a cloud to fleck its radiant glare, Without a breath to stir its sultry air. All still, all silent, save the sobbing rush Of rippling waves, that lapsed in silver hush Upon the beach; where, glittering towards the strand The purple Mediterranean kissed the land. All still, all peaceful; when a convent chime Broke on the mid-day silence for a time, Then trembling into quiet, seemed to cease, In deeper silence and more utter peace. So as I turned to gaze, where gleaming white, Half hid by shadowy trees from passers' sight, The Convent lay, one who had dwelt for long In that fair home of ancient tale and song, Who knew the story of each cave and hill, And every haunting fancy lingering still Within the land, spake thus to me, and told The Convent's treasured Legend, quaint and old: — Long years ago, a dense and flowering wood, Still more concealed where the white convent stood, Borne on its perfumed wings the title came: " Our Lady of the Hawthorns " is its name. Then did that bell, which still rings out to-day, Bid all the country rise, or eat, or pray. Before that convent shrine, the haughty knight Passed the lone vigil of his perilous fight; For humbler cottage strife or village brawl, The Abbess listened, prayed, and settled all. Young hearts that came, weighed down by love or wrong, Left her kind presence comforted and strong. Each passing pilgrim, and each beggar's right Was food, and rest, and shelter for the night. But, more than this, the Nuns could well impart The deepest mysteries of the healing art; Their store of herbs and simples was renowned, And held in wondering faith for miles around. Thus strife, love, sorrow, good and evil fate, Found help and blessing at the convent gate. Of all the nuns, no heart was half so light, No eyelids veiling glances half as bright, No step that glided with such noiseless feet, No face that looked so tender or so sweet, No voice that rose in choir so pure, so clear, No heart to all the others half so dear, So surely touched by others' pain or woe, (Guessing the grief her young life could not know,) No soul in childlike faith so undefiled, As Sister Angela's, the " Convent Child. " For thus they loved to call her. She had known No home, no love, no kindred, save their own. An orphan, to their tender nursing given, Child, plaything, pupil, now the Bride of Heaven And she it was who trimmed the lamp's red light That swung before the altar, day and night; Her hands it was whose patient skill could trace The finest broidery, weave the costliest lace; But most of all, her first and dearest care, The office she would never miss or share, Was every day to weave fresh garlands sweet, To place before the shrine at Mary's feet. Nature is bounteous in that region fair, For even winter has her blossoms there. Thus Angela loved to count each feast the best, By telling with what flowers the shrine was dressed. In pomp supreme the countless Roses passed, Battalion on battalion thronging fast, Each with a different banner, flaming bright, Damask, or striped, or crimson, pink, or white, Until they bowed before a newborn queen, And the pure virgin Lily rose serene. Though Angela always thought the Mother blest Must love the time of her own hawthorn best, Each evening through the years, with equal care, She placed her flowers; then kneeling down in prayer, As their faint perfume rose before the shrine, So rose her thoughts, as pure and as divine. She knelt until the shades grew dim without, Till one by one the altar lights...

A pair of early, large sterling silver Georg Jensen five-light candelabra, design #224 by Johan Rohde, originally introduced in 1916. Each candelabrum features five elegant branches ...

Ceiling light with opaline glass shade, different sizes, comes as well as a downlight Total drop custom made All components according to the UL regulations, with an additional char...

A gorgeous antique silverplate footed mirror plateau, circa 1920. No maker's mark. This beautiful plateau has a lovely silver patina, ornate feet, and an...

Art Nouveau French silver beakers by Edouard Fournemet. Set of six liqueur cups in silver and vermeil, decorated with nets surmounted by crossed ribbons. Made by the renowned French ...

This is a larger version of the famous Josef Hoffmann Palme.  Material used is brass in any finish, crystal-glass. Custom-made production at the ...

Six balls connect each of the four columns, bent beech and plywood, dyed to rosewood and polished, surface slightly refreshed, top with glass, base covered with very fine hammered brass, very good original condition G. Renzi, Il mobile moderno, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Milan, 2008, pp. 220 f This table follows the same concept as the "Seven Ball Chair...

Excellent condition and rare design, 3-light chandelier. If you appreciate the elegant designs from the Art Nouveau era, then this midcentury made, 1970s alabaster, bronze and brass...

The design source of the rug comes from the possession of Endre Unger, which was sold at Sotheby’s in 1992. That rug with the central star was designed in the early 16th-century rug ...

Original Art Nouveau Vintage Poster dating from 1896 by Alphonse Mucha. Poster for the 20th edition of the Salon des Cent in March-April 1...

A rare and unusual English Regency style mahogany folding flip-top table with wooden gallery, early 20th century, having a carved bamboo turned frame, encasing folding table top, on ...

The source of carpet comes from the book Museo Calouste Gulbenkian, Printed by Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon, in 2015, nr.52. This is a vase-technique carpet design in the 17th century in the Kerman region, of Persia. In the 16th century, in Safavid Persia, medallion rugs were among the most appreciated, but at the end of the century and the beginning of the next, a taste for decoration with floral motifs, coils, and palmettes gradually emerged, covering the entire field. This is the case, for this example design, with rugs from eastern and southern Persia. Among the latter are the famous vase-type rugs attributed to the Kerman region, to which our design belongs. Considered by some specialists to be quite atypical, this rug made in Persia, probably in Kirman in the time of Shah Abbas (1587-1625), presents, on a dark blue background, an exuberant and dynamic vegetal decoration in which horizontal and vertical rows of palmettes and stand out, due to their dimension and spiral movements, large sickle-shaped leaves, alternating with branches and flowers. The very narrow rim, with a red background, is filled with a frieze of coils and flowers. It’s a famous carpet design as ‘Kerman Vase Technique Rug, The Most Expensive Rug...

The category Antique Paintings Portraits of Dogs features an oil painting on canvas with a portrait of a Pomeranian Breed dog or Dwarf German Spitz, named after the Pomeranian regio...

A green glazed majolica jardinière/planter, handcrafted in England towards the end of the 19th century by the renowned potters Bretby. This decorative set comprises a ceramic plante...

A corner armchair designed by Adolf Loos (1870-1933) and manufactured by Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Vienna, Austria, circa 1900. The condition of the wood is very good. The leather seat...

Purple ceramic cachepot Perfect condiction.

Great looking and patina antique Gothic trunk, made of solid elmwood. This impressive looking and practical size chest shows a number of deep and...

Can you imagine these firebucks in your fireplace with the flames burning on all sides? These beautifully and all handcrafted wrought iron, andirons were made to stand in your firep...

This is a fantastic and monumental carved walnut paint decorated console table. The table features a gorgeous verdi marble slab on top of a mythical maiden sphinx base with cabachon ...

Museum quality and condition work of religious art with amazing, hand carved details. This amazingly hand carved wooden wall plaque is not only of great quality and condition, it also has a patina that is unlike anything you ever saw. Over the decades we have sold a number of unique and interesting crucifixes, but we had not yet come across one that is inside such a beautiful branches and leaf frame in the Swiss Black Forest style. For us to have found it in this amazing condition again felt like a blessing and we are grateful to be able it to offer it to our 1stdibs clientele first. At the centre of this Christian-work-of-art-wall-plaque and behind the original, mouth-blown convex glass 'window' is an even more detailed sepiolite sculpture of Christ on the cross. The details in this crucifix sculpture...

Charming antique Art Nouveau ink scraper featuring a detailed dachshund figurine crafted in cold-painted spelter. This unique piece combines both functionality and decorative appeal,...